PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

The fact that the universe is not repeatable proves that a conscious Being made this universe according to His will and decision.

In 1966, I wrote a book in Urdu titled Mazhab aur Jadeed Challenge (translated into English as God Arises). In this book, it is shown that the universe is very meaningful. Such a meaningful universe cannot have been made without a Maker. One of the points made in the book is that a solar eclipse would occur on the 11th of August 1999 that would be completely visible in Cornwall. I had written this around thirty-five years before this event. Thirty-five years after I wrote this, the date arrived. Per this advance announcement, a solar eclipse did indeed occur at the exact appointed time. There was not a minute difference in the occurrence of this event.

I had not come up with this point myself; instead, it was based on the calculations of expert astronomers. These experts successfully made such an accurate claim well in advance because the universe runs according to extremely well-established laws. Even after millions of years, there has not been the slightest change. Based on this discovery, the scientist Sir James Jeans suggested in his book The Mysterious Universe that the study of the universe seems to indicate that its creator is a Mathematical Mind.

A significant aspect of something being meaningful is that it is also predictable. This quality is present completely throughout the universe, one proof of which is evident in the above-cited example of the solar eclipse.

Some people who deny the existence of God claim that the present universe came into being through chance or accident, not by the decision of any Creator. However, this is not correct. If it is accepted that the present meaningful universe emerged as a result of an accident, the necessary consequence would be that we should also have to accept that the numerous accidents that occur in this world are also phenomena that can bring into existence meaningful things. In such a situation, the ‘accident’ that supposedly brought the universe must be repeatable. The universe should come into existence repeatedly because accidents happen frequently. If an unconscious accident has supposedly created a meaningful universe once, in the same way, it should happen a second time that a meaningful universe should come into being through an accident. However, as is known, never again has a universe other than the one that exists come into being after the existing universe did.

According to scientific estimates, the universe’s age is around 15 billion years. Why has a meaningful universe come into being in this long period just once and never again after that, not even partially? For example, as far as we know, it has never happened that a new solar system has been created once again or that a planet like Earth has come into being, a planet with water, air and greenery and where humans and animals live and move about. It is clear evidence of creation resulting from a conscious decision by a Creator, and not as an accident.

The present world is an exceptional phenomenon. The universe is an exception that rebuts the view of the deniers of God. If the universe were only the result of an accident, it would be repeatable through another such ‘accident’. However, when it is not repeatable, seeking to explain it due to a supposed accident is entirely baseless. Therefore, this sort of explanation is not intellectually acceptable.

The fact is that for a person, the existence of God is as certain as his own existence. Every person accepts his existence. Through the same evidence and proof, he will also have to accept the existence of God. To accept one’s existence and not to accept God’s existence is an intellectual contradiction. No serious person can accept this.

The famous 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) said, “I think, therefore I exist.” This principle is undoubtedly a firm one. According to this principle, a person who is aware of himself reaches the stage of realizing God. According to this principle, it would be right to say, “I exist, therefore God exists.”

The universe is not repeatable; it proves that a conscious Being made this universe according to His will and decision. God is a proven Being. To know that God is a reality is to accept something proven, while to deny God is to deny something proven.